Song:
"The Love Song," music and lyrics by Steve Dossick (Unreleased on commercial LP)

Tube Trivia:
• Alan Oppenheimer is best known for playing Dr. Rudy Wells on "The Six Million Dollar Man." He also appeared in Episodes 70 and 87.
• Jonathan Daly also appeared in Episode 4.
• Mark Hamill is best known for playing Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars." He has also lent his voice to the animated cartoons, "Jeannie" and "Batman," among others.
• William Wintersole also appeared in Episode 1.
• A fire on the Columbia Ranch backlot destroyed the Partridge Family home facade in August, 1970, necessitating scenes to be diverted from the burnt out set. If you look closely at the reflections in the bus windows while Laurie and her boyfriend are talking outside, you'll see the missing home!
• Watch closely when the Partridges are about to sing "The Love Song." You'll notice Keith got a hair cut between commercials!

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In this episode there was a hint of Jeremy being a bratty kid. In the tag at the end of the show when the three kids (Danny, Chris and Tracy) are having milk and cookies, when the scene cuts to Danny stepping forward and delivering his line you can see Jeremy pulling a cookie out of Suzanne's hand.

Ahhhh braces. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to list all the sitcoms that used braces for a topic. And of course who can forget the "Gilligan's Island" where Gilligan's mouth picked up radio signals? But I digress, this is about our favorite family...

How nice to see Laurie get the focus in this episode and Susan pulls it off very well. Shirley getting to spend some mother-daughter time with her was nice to see as well.

Mark Hamill as the clutzy boyfriend was fun (before he took off for Galaxies far, far away) and Rueben and Danny having the same idea about the brightside of braces was clever writing. Wink was appropriately arrogant but forceful adding to the comedy of it all.

The "Love Song" is good and I still hope to one day have an official release with it on it.

Braces are a common topic, but I do like how they at least explained at the end why they didn't want to put Susan Dey in braces in every show for the rest of the season (6 months). They weren't doing " Ugly Betty".

Of course, we never see the retainer during the next 2 years, but very few episodes were done with after bed time scenes so not really a fair nitpick.

It is fun seeing them washing the bus. Hearkens back to the painting scene in the pilot and of course, as previously noted Mark Hamil in a pre Star Wars role is a fun thing._________________Kathy in St. Louis

Seeing Laurie suck soup through a straw reminds me of the old horror movie, The Fly. He did that, too (except he didn't use a straw). I can't remember whether I'm thinking of the Vincent Price version or the Jeff Goldblum version.

Shirley: "You can't just stop talking. Women aren't built that way!" Whoo. That would be a politically charged line these days, wouldn't it?

Some random thoughts: Laurie should have converted to the Muslim faith, and she could have covered her face for six months. It sure is lucky they invited their dentist over for The Wink Burgess Show.

I had a "brush with greatness" with Mark Hamel. I once merged into a lane entering the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City about ten years ago, and the driver who let me in was Mark Hamel. (I told everyone back home that I cut Luke Skywalker in traffic!)

Topango, thanks for catching that moment between Chris and Tracy. Quite funny. It looked like one of the more natural interactions between siblings on this show! I wonder if they planned it or if it was indeed a sign of Jeremy's brattiness!